Pfaff re U.S. torture
William Pfaff, one of our best thinkers about foreign affairs, seems to have been blacklisted in stateside newspapers, after many years with the L.A. Times, because, one imagines, his views are so sound and so at odds with the drip of the mainstream media.
Curiously, however, the NY Times Company continues to publish his column in The International Herald Tribune (which it owns), in Paris.
Here are his thoughts about the Shock, Shock in D.C. re not so much that the CIA tortures people but that they burnt some video.
His longer pieces do appear now and then in The New York Review of Books (our best periodical).
Here, for example, on the Bush-Cheney warmongery redux post 2006 elections. An interesting discussion but one that proceeds, in my humble opinion, from the false premise that the makers of the Iraq war were motivated by desire to bring freedom and democracy to the people of that hard land.
